“Weekend Update†and the tradition of new journalism
The decedents of “Weekend Update” proliferate.
Read moreMonth: March 2009
“Weekend Update†and the tradition of new journalism
Give Me That Old Time Virality
David Gurney / Northwestern University
Who’s Going to Play Michelle Obama?: Saturday Night Live and Its Lack of Women of Color
Phillip Lamarr Cunningham / Bowling Green State University
A simple dilemma highlights the shows astounding lack of diversity, especially regarding female cast members.
Read morePitchforking Andy Samberg’s Hipster AppealÂ
 Alyx Vesey / Independent Scholar
A look at Andy Samberg’s role as Saturday Night Live’s resident hipster and geek.
Read moreGilda Rader and ‘Jewess Jeans’: Breaking the Jewish Ethnicity Taboo on Network Television
Bernard M. Timberg / East Carolina University
Michael O’Donoghue, SNL, and the Comedy of Cruelty
Evan Elkins / University of Texas-Austin
A look at early Saturday Night Live and the comedy of Michael O’Donoghue.
Read more‘Using One of its Lifelines’: Does Politics Save Saturday Night Live from Oblivion?
The role of political satire in “rescuing” Saturday Night Live from obscurity and cultural irrelevance.
Jonathan Gray / Fordham University, Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University, and Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara
An examination of what is at stake when technological infrastructures are hidden.
Read moreSpinning off, crossing over
Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh
Orientalized Masculinities in Contemporary Australian Cinema
Jane Park / The University of Sydney
An investigation of Asian masculinities in Little Fish and Japanese Story.
Read moreStrategies of Innovation in ‘High-End’ TV Drama: The Contribution of CableÂ
 Trisha Dunleavy / Victoria University of WellingtonÂ
Are You Smarter Than a Cuban Customs Official?: Reassessing Cuba’s Commercial Television Influence in Latin America
 Yeidy M. Rivero / Indiana University – Bloomington Â
Yeidy Rivero introduces and explores the history of Cuban Television, which remains largely inaccessible to television and media scholars.
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